Detection of turbulence occurrences from temperature, pressure, and position measurements under superpressure balloons

Wilson, Richard; Pitois, Clara; Podglajen, Aurélien; Hertzog, Albert; Corcos, Milena; Plougonven, Riwal

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-311-2023

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-311-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-16-311-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 2

Research article

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20 Jan 2023

Research article |

| 20 Jan 2023

Detection of turbulence occurrences from temperature, pressure, and position measurements under superpressure balloons

Richard Wilson, Clara Pitois, Aurélien Podglajen, Albert Hertzog, Milena Corcos, and Riwal Plougonven

Data sets

STRATEOLE2 - C0: TSEN - Thermodynamics SENsor Albert Hertzog https://doi.org/10.14768/7396b9ec-582f-4be2-8c37-c34ef41247a7

Short summary

Strateole-2 is an French–US initiative designed to study atmospheric events in the tropical upper troposphere–lower stratosphere. In this work, data from several superpressure balloons, capable of staying aloft at an altitude of 18–20 km for over 3 months, were used. The present article describes methods to detect the occurrence of atmospheric turbulence – one efficient process impacting the properties of the atmosphere composition via stirring and mixing.